TY - GEN
T1 - Quantifying the completeness of goals in BDI agent systems
AU - Thangarajah, John
AU - Harland, James
AU - Morley, David N.
AU - Yorke-Smith, Neil
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Given the current set of intentions an autonomous agent may have, intention selection is the agent's decision which intention it should focus on next. Often, in the presence of conflicts, the agent has to choose between multiple intentions. One factor that may play a role in this deliberation is the level of completeness of the intentions. To that end, this paper provides pragmatic but principled mechanisms for quantifying the level of completeness of goals in a BDI-style agent. Our approach leverages previous work on resource and effects summarization but we go beyond by accommodating both dynamic resource summaries and goal effects, while also allowing a non-binary quantification of goal completeness. We demonstrate the computational approach on an autonomous robot case study.
AB - Given the current set of intentions an autonomous agent may have, intention selection is the agent's decision which intention it should focus on next. Often, in the presence of conflicts, the agent has to choose between multiple intentions. One factor that may play a role in this deliberation is the level of completeness of the intentions. To that end, this paper provides pragmatic but principled mechanisms for quantifying the level of completeness of goals in a BDI-style agent. Our approach leverages previous work on resource and effects summarization but we go beyond by accommodating both dynamic resource summaries and goal effects, while also allowing a non-binary quantification of goal completeness. We demonstrate the computational approach on an autonomous robot case study.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84923186847&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-879
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-879
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84923186847
T3 - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
SP - 879
EP - 884
BT - ECAI 2014 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, PAIS 2014, Proceedings
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014
Y2 - 18 August 2014 through 22 August 2014
ER -